Medicinal marijuana setback at the Supreme Court

By Shabbir | June 8, 2005

Medicinal marijuana gots its day in court, and the Supreme Court has decided that if you cultivate it in your home, for personal medical use as proscribed by a doctor, that its still illegal, even if you’re in a state where it’s legal.

The logic here is fascinating, even if in some case tortured, and worthy of a few minutes of your attention.       

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Steve Jobs and the incredibly shrinking customer base

By Shabbir | June 6, 2005

By now you’ve seen the news that Apple is switching from IBM’s chips to Intel’s chips.

I’m sure there’s a great gnashing of teeth among many that he’s making a huge mistake, but I think it’s apparent that he’s made a distinct decision for the long-term benefit of Apple, though it has an implication he probably wasn’t expecting.

See:

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More dispatches from Iraq

By Shabbir | June 6, 2005

In a recent blog entry at 365 and a Wakeup, a deployed American soldier talks about the difficulties that an Iraqi Army brigade had when they were ambushed in a civilian area and couldn’t adequately defend themselves for fear of hitting local civilians. While the reasons we went to Iraq have been found since to…

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What you should read in Sunday’s papers

By Shabbir | June 5, 2005

In case you missed these excellent articles in Sunday’s papers, go catch them online.  They’re the best of what was in the Washington Post and the New York Times.

If you’re curious, my highly refined process for reading the papers is to go to Tryst Cafe early on Sunday morning with Sarah, grab a couch, plug in my laptop (cellular net service rocks when they turn off the in-cafe wifi on the weekends), and slowly eat my bagel while we dissect the paper.

Sarah loves the NYT, and thinks the WP is a crappy paper.  On foreign items I tend to agree, but the Metro section, Style, and the Business sections of the WP I find useful.  The technology coverage of the NYT is always disappointing.

And of course, I love the format of both paper’s Sunday magazines.

So without further delay, here’s what you should go read from Sunday’s papers…

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Partypoker.com plans June IPO

By Shabbir | June 4, 2005

This story, from CNN/Money, covers the planned IPO of online poker juggernaut Partypoker.  (see PartyGaming plans June IPO, employees foresee big win – Jun. 2, 2005) To give you an idea of how much money flows through this place, consider the online monitoring site, PokerPulse.com, which functions as a sort of analyst for online poker…

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365 and a Wakeup

By Shabbir | June 3, 2005

"In the days prior to leaving on R&R soldiers are required to watch
a series of videos that are meant to ease the transition to the "land
of cool water". To be honest I don’t remember to much of those videos,
they rest somewhere buried deep under the ocean of anticipation of
reuniting with my wife. But there was sagacious piece of advice in that
presentation that stayed with me… you can’t make up a year and a half
in two weeks." -Baghdad soldier blog, "365 and a wakeup"

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World Series Of Poker starts today

By Shabbir | June 2, 2005

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) starts today.

Many people don’t realize that the WSOP is pretty much not a single game, but in fact a month long series.  Check the schedule out.

June 2, Thursday 1 Casino Employee No-limit Hold’em $500
June 3, Friday 2 No-limit Hold’em $1,500
June 4, Saturday 3 Pot-limit Hold’em $1,500
June 5, Sunday 4 Limit Hold’em $1,500
June 6, Monday 5 Omaha Hi-low Split $1,500
June 7, Tuesday 6 Short Handed (6/table) No-limit Hold’em $2,500
June 8, Wednesday 7 No-limit Hold’em w/rebuys $1,000
June 9, Thursday 8 Seven Card Stud $1,500
June 10, Friday 9 No-limit Hold’em $2,000
June 11, Saturday 10 Limit Hold’em $2,000
June 12, Sunday 11 Pot-limit Hold’em $2,000
June 13, Monday 12 Pot-limit Omaha w/re-buys $2,000
June 14, Tuesday 13 No-limit Hold’em $5,000
June 15, Wednesday 14 Seven Card Stud Hi-low Split $1,000
June 16, Thursday 15 Limit Hold’em Shootout $1,500
June 17, Friday 16 No-limit Hold’em Shootout $1,500
June 18, Saturday 17 Limit Hold’em $2,500
June 19, Sunday 18 Seven Card Stud Hi-low Split, 2p.m. start $2,000
June 19, Sunday 19 Pot Limit Omaha $1,500
June 20, Mon. 20 Pot-limit Hold’em $5,000
June 21, Tuesday 21 Omaha Hi-low Split $2,500
June 22, Wednesday 22 No-limit Hold’em $1,500
June 23, Thursday 23 Seven Card Stud $5,000
June 24, Friday 24 No-Limit Hold’em $2,500
June 25, Saturday 25 Pot-limit Hold’em $2,500
June 26, Sunday 26 Ladies Event No-limit Hold’em, 2p.m. start, 1 day event $1,000
June 26, Sunday 27 Pot-limit Omaha w/re-buys $5,000
June 27, Monday 28 Limit Hold’em $5,000
June 28, Tuesday 29 No-limit Hold’em $2,000
June 29, Wednesday 30 Seven Card Razz 1 day event, 2p.m. start $1,500
June 29, Wednesday 31 No-limit Hold’em-Short handed 6/table $5,000
June 30, Thursday 32 Omaha hi-low split $5,000
July 1, Friday 33 No-limit Hold’em $3,000
July 2, Saturday 34 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em, 1day event $1,000
July 2, Saturday 35 Pot-limit Omaha, 2p.m. start $10,000
July 3, Sunday 36 Limit Holdem $3,000
July 4, Monday 37 No-limit Hold’em w/re-buys $1,000
July 5, Tuesday 38 Super satellite day (10a.m./3p.m./8p.m.) $1,000
July 5, Tuesday 39 No-limit 2 to 7 Draw Lowball w/re-buys $5,000
July 6, Wednesday 40 Super satellite day (9a.m./2p.m./9p.m.)
July 6, Wednesday 41 Media/Celebrity Charity Event at 6p.m. (one day event and I’m playing in this one!!)

No-limit Texas Hold’em World Championship Event:
July 7, Thursday 42 Day 1A, The first 1,000 – 2,200 play down to 500-650 $10,000
July 8, Friday Day 1B, The second 1,000 – 2,200 play down to 500-650
July 9, Saturday Day 1C, The third 1,000 – 2,200 play down to 500-650
July 10, Sunday Day 2, Start with 1,500-1,950 play down to 500-1,000
July 11, Monday Day 3B, Start with 500-1,000 play down to 200-400
July 11, Monday 43 No-limit Hold’em, 1 day event $1,500
July 12, Tuesday Day 4, Start with 200 – 400 play down to 100-150
July 12, Tuesday 44 No-limit Hold’em, 1 day event $1,000
July 13, Wednesday Day 5, Start with 100-150 play down to 27
July 13, Wednesday 45 No-limit Hold’em, 1 day event $1,000
July 14, Thursday Day 6, Start with 27 play down 9 @ Binions Horseshoe
July 15, Friday Day 7, Final table @ Binions Horseshoe

(I got the schedule from Tao of Poker: A Poker Blog)

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